"physics envy" meaning in English

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          "text": "Lack of sufficient pride in our own material (another consequence of reductionism and physics envy) made us more receptive to gurus from elsewhere.",
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        "The tendency of academics in non-scientific subjects to introduce jargon and mathematics to make their work appear more rigorous."
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